"We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": Black Women School Founders and Their Mission

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Previous articleNext article No AccessRevisions/Reports"We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": Black Women School Founders and Their MissionAudrey Thomas McCluskeyAudrey Thomas McCluskey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 22, Number 2Winter, 1997 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495166 Views: 12Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1997 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Janaka B. Lewis Radical Leadership and Creativity: Race, Gender, and Academic Freedom, (Apr 2021): 161–171.https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-882-620211012Christina L. Moss (An)other Southern Rhetoric: Charlotte Hawkins Brown’s Mammy: An Appeal to the Heart of the South, Rhetoric Review 40, no.22 (May 2021): 123–137.https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1883808Patricia Linn Williams Paut Neteru: Dreams of Leadership and Liberation—An Autoethnography of a Black Female Charter School Leader Using An Africentric Approach, Frontiers in Education 6 (Feb 2021).https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.517880April L. Peters, Angel Miles Nash I’m Every Woman: Advancing the Intersectional Leadership of Black Women School Leaders as Anti-Racist Praxis, Journal of School Leadership 31, no.1-21-2 (Feb 2021): 7–28.https://doi.org/10.1177/1052684621992759Meredith Cooper Brown, Nicole A. Taylor , ( 2019): 9.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90128-2_2Kalvin DaRonne Harvell The Art of Sankofa and Re-Establishing Kujichagulia, (Jan 2019): 41–71.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5990-0.ch003Adah Ward Randolph Presidential Address: African-American Education History—A Manifestation of Faith, History of Education Quarterly 54, no.11 (Jan 2017): 1–18.https://doi.org/10.1111/hoeq.12044Bette J. Dickerson, Wanda Parham-Payne, Tekisha Dwan Everette Single Mothering in Poverty: Black Feminist Considerations, (Mar 2015): 91–111.https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-2126(2012)0000016008Sarah D. Bair The Struggle for Community and Respectability: Black Women School Founders and the Politics of Character Education in the Early Twentieth Century, Theory & Research in Social Education 37, no.44 (Sep 2009): 570–599.https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2009.10473411Sarah D. Bair Educating Black Girls in the Early 20 th Century: The Pioneering Work of Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961), Theory & Research in Social Education 36, no.11 (Jan 2008): 9–35.https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2008.10473358Marybeth Gasman Swept Under the Rug? A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges, American Educational Research Journal 44, no.44 (Dec 2016): 760–805.https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831207308639Jillian Jimenez The history of child protection in the African American community: Implications for current child welfare policies, Children and Youth Services Review 28, no.88 (Aug 2006): 888–905.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.10.004Iris Carlton-LaNey, Vanessa Hodges African American Reformers’ Mission: Caring for Our Girls and Women, Affilia 19, no.33 (Sep 2016): 257–272.https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109904265853Kathleen M. Tangenberg Linking Feminist Social Work and Feminist Theology in Light of Faith-Based Service Initiatives, Affilia 18, no.44 (Jul 2016): 379–394.https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109903257547Patricia S. Parker Chapter 9: Control, Resistance, and Empowerment in Raced, Gendered, and Classed Work Contexts: The Case of African American Women, Communication Yearbook 27, no.11 (Jan 2003): 257–291.https://doi.org/10.1207/s15567419cy2701_9Kenneth W. Mack Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905, Law <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Social Inquiry 24, no.22 (Apr 1999): 377–409.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1999.tb00134.xKenneth W. Mack Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 1999).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.158829